With great pleasure, we would like to share the exciting news that our own Mona Merling just won the 2025 Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry.

Established in 2012, the AWM Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize highlights exceptional research in topology/geometry by a woman early in her career. The award is made possible by a generous contribution from Joan Birman, whose work has been in low dimensional topology, and her husband, Joseph, who was a theoretical physicist specializing in applications of group theory to solid state physics. The official award ceremony will be at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, scheduled for January 8 – 11, 2025 in Seattle, WA.

The link for the AMS press release is here.

Congratulations Mona!